[Parted-maintainers] Bug#819488: gparted crash with a libparted backtrace

[Sandro Tosi]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 21:00:41 -0400 Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> On 04/11/2016 02:13 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:52:32AM -0600, Curtis Gedak wrote:
> >> If I recall correctly, libparted was not able to handle when
> >> there was only one unallocated sector between logical partitions
> >> (it expects at least two).
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> I believe that is exactly it Curtis.
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> > well, that's really not a reason to crash like that! ;)
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> For the last 3 decades, it has not been a problem since every disk
> partitioner has worked this way.  I have sen a few bug reports about
> this recently though, and the others have reported using something
> called Easeus disk partitioning software.  Have you used this?  It
> would be good to confirm this is the source of the problem and I'll
> see if I can't fix parted to handle it.

Phillip, did you have a chance to look at making parted not crashing
if there is only one unallocated sector between partitions? Mattia, do
you still consider this bug RC? thanks!